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What is the difference between taking a dry sin swab and a tissue/wound swab?

Dampen the cotton wool swab in sterile fluid for the dry skin swab

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What's the process of taking a dry skin swab?

position the patient to expose the areaclean the vile of sterile fluid and opendip the tip of the cotton wool in sterile fluidgently roll the damp swab over the areaunscrew the test medium bottleinsert into test medium and snap off (if required)complete swab label and formarrange transport to microbiology

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What's the process of taking a tissue swab?

position the patient to expose the areagently rub/roll the swab over the moist tissue/open woundunscrew test medium bottleinsert swab into medium and snapcomplete swab labels and formarrange transport to microbiology

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What equipment do you need to take a dry skin swab?

SwabSterile fluidCulture mediumAlcohol wipeLab request form

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What equipment do you need to take a tissue/wound swab?

SwabCulture mediumLab request form

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What's the process of taking a throat swab?

sit patient facing a good light sourcedepress tonguequickly but gently rub the swab over the tonsillar fossa or area with lesion/exudateunscrew top of test mediuminsert swab into test medium and snaplabel swab and fill out formarrange transport to microbiology